Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his fault she had to go all the way back to the house . |
| 2 | I drift back indoors , in case she decides to go all the way and tip me over the edge while she 's at it . |
| 3 | She told him that as soon as she had some money she wanted to buy some decent clothes , the kind that she could wear to her work in the evenings . |
| 4 | And when she came home she said , Do you know what she said she must have taken ages she said to put that cord through that er beam , she said . |
| 5 | After a few minutes she decided to take another two tables and then continued taking two at a time until she had swallowed about 30 . |
| 6 | Painfully and in the open she had to make all the running . |
| 7 | Health Secretary Virgina Bottomley has told the Commons she wants to merge several regional health authorities . |
| 8 | In describing her daily life every woman interviewed outlined the kind of standards she thought it important to stick to in housework , and the type of routine she used to achieve this end . |
| 9 | When Karen Stephens trained as a hairdresser she had to learn more than just the rudiments of cutting and blow-drying/ She also had to tackle the problems of learning how to lip-read in a mirror , as 20-year-old Karen has been deaf all her life . |
| 10 | ‘ You certainly know how to charm a girl , ’ she bounced back at him , and caught his laughing expression full-on , and while her heart danced a merry jig she had to accept that , for the moment , she could forget all about the barely started upon list of questions she had lined up . |
| 11 | She had clearly been a very good-looking woman when younger , and even now was handsome ; paradoxically , the artifices she employed to emphasise this were the very features to strike a false note . |
| 12 | He was the enemy , and at least this way she got to score some points ! |
| 13 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 14 | However , from this time she began to eliminate any suggestions of depth and perspective in her paintings . |
| 15 | During this time she wanted to exploit all the constitutional possibilities and consolidate a broad-based support around the civil rights demands . |
| 16 | But the language she uses to describe this process demonstrates her parodic attitude toward it . |
| 17 | Pre-Astrid , Jay had been in a dead job , art workshops with utterly disillusioned teenagers , every morning she coughed she rang in sick , malingering Mondays , rain seeped in the doors of the empty bus every morning , the bus to the High Street for the next bus , hoping to be early enough to miss the screaming leering sneering schoolgirls she had to face all day . |
| 18 | I wonder if she has yet worked out that for every douse she has to pull less load ; probably not , or she would be pissing on the wood . |